{"slug":"validator-yield","title":"Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains","subtitle":"Median validator net yield (APR multiplied by uptime) in basis points across 7 PoS chains. Solana top 200 by stake, Ethereum network-average consensus APR, Hyperliquid active set, Cardano top 50 pools, Sui active validators, Cosmos Hub top 200, Avalanche P-Chain top 100.","category":"Blockchains","metric":"Net yield","unit":"bps","status":"live","higherIsBetter":true,"filters":null,"value":986.838,"leader":{"name":"Cosmos Hub","slug":"cosmos-hub","value":986.838},"rankings":[{"name":"Cosmos Hub","slug":"cosmos-hub","ms":{"p50":986.838,"p90":986.838,"p99":987.452,"mean":941.484},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":180},{"name":"Avalanche","slug":"avalanche","ms":{"p50":679.958,"p90":832.942,"p99":833,"mean":528.673},"successRate":99.9956,"sampleSize":100},{"name":"Solana","slug":"solana","ms":{"p50":500.749,"p90":529.677,"p99":541.35,"mean":431.509},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":200},{"name":"Cardano","slug":"cardano","ms":{"p50":495,"p90":500,"p99":500,"mean":455.862},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":50},{"name":"Ethereum","slug":"ethereum","ms":{"p50":253.5,"p90":253.5,"p99":253.5,"mean":253.5},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":1},{"name":"Hyperliquid","slug":"hyperliquid","ms":{"p50":217.159,"p90":222.532,"p99":223.876,"mean":170.768},"successRate":100,"sampleSize":35}],"sparkline":[986.4,986.4,986.364,986.344,987.79,987.786,987.785,987.782,987.734,987.734,987.713,987.707,987.708,987.706,987.707,987.702,987.72,987.75,987.747,987.746,987.747,987.735,987.755,987.754,987.751,987.736,987.737,987.737,987.952,987.947,987.947,987.94,987.935,987.936,987.965,987.877,987.877,987.74,987.561,987.559,987.558,987.528,987.526,987.587,987.585,987.584,987.582,987.585,987.585,987.582,987.508,987.497,987.469,987.475,987.473,987.454,987.447,987.446,987.352,987.351,987.348,987.345,987.343,987.347,987.347,987.345,987.344,987.345,987.368,987.314,987.187,986.838,986.838],"sampleSize":566,"asOf":"2026-09-11T00:51:48.046Z","headline":"Cosmos Hub leads net yield at 9.87% (24h avg) on Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains.","quote":"Cosmos Hub leads net yield at 9.87% (24h avg) on Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains. Source: OpenChainBench (https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield).","cite":{"plain":"OpenChainBench. \"Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains\". Retrieved 2026-09-11. https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield","bibtex":"@misc{ocb_validator_yield,\n  author = {OpenChainBench},\n  title  = {Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains},\n  year   = {2026},\n  url    = {https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield},\n  note   = {Retrieved 2026-09-11}\n}","apa":"OpenChainBench. (2026). Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains. Retrieved September 11, 2026, from https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield","ris":"TY  - GEN\r\nAU  - OpenChainBench\r\nTI  - Highest staking yield, live validator net APR across 7 PoS chains\r\nPY  - 2026\r\nUR  - https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield\r\nY2  - 2026-09-11\r\nER  - \r\n"},"pageUrl":"https://openchainbench.com/benchmarks/validator-yield","ogImage":"https://openchainbench.com/api/og/validator-yield","source":"https://github.com/ChainBench/OpenChainBench/tree/main/harnesses/validator-yield","methodology":["Sources. Solana primary: `GET api.stakewiz.com/validators` (free, no key). `total_apy` already includes inflation + Jito MEV tips. Solana enrichment: `GET kobe.mainnet.jito.network/api/v1/validators` for MEV-share split. Hyperliquid: `POST api.hyperliquid.xyz/info {type:validatorSummaries}`, field `predictedApr.day` × `uptimeFraction`. Prices: CoinGecko (SOL/USD), Hyperliquid `metaAndAssetCtxs` (HYPE/USD).","Cadence. 5-minute scrape interval per chain. Validator-level metrics (APR, commission, uptime, stake) move on epoch boundaries (~2 days on Solana, ~30 seconds on Hyperliquid), so sub-minute polling would add Prom cardinality cost without information.","Net yield formula. `net_yield_bps = gross_apr_bps × uptime_fraction`. Slashing is treated as negligible in v1, Solana has never slashed in production, and Hyperliquid's jailed-validator state is surfaced as `ocb_validator_jailed{chain, validator}=1` separately rather than amortised into the APR. Both chains report APR (simple yield), not APY (compounded); the bench reports APR-as-bps to match what the upstream APIs publish, no compounding adjustment applied.","Cap. Solana exposes ~3000 active validators across the full set; the bench caps to the top 200 by `activated_stake` (USD-weighted) to keep Prom cardinality at ~230 series total across the two chains. The top 200 represent ~90% of staked SOL by value, so the median is representative of where real stake sits, not of the long tail of <1k SOL validators. Hyperliquid exposes ~30 active validators total, all are tracked.","Median (chain-level headline). `ocb_chain_median_net_yield_bps{chain}` is computed harness-side over the per-validator gauges every scrape, not derived from Prom. This includes the ~42 Solana validators currently at 0% APY (commission 100% or no leader slots), which materially pulls the Solana median down vs the modal active-validator yield. A reader who wants 'yield I would get if I picked a sane validator' should look at p75 or higher on the Solana distribution, not the chain median.","MEV treatment. Solana: MEV tips from Jito are already folded into Stakewiz `total_apy`. `ocb_validator_mev_share_bps` is exposed for transparency (a reader sees 'Helius APR 600 bps of which 80 bps MEV') but NOT subtracted to produce a 'staking-only' figure. Hyperliquid: no separate MEV layer (centralised sequencer captures order-flow value at the protocol level), so the MEV gauge is 0 by convention.","Ethereum. Source: `GET ultrasound.money/api/v2/fees/effective-balance-sum` (free, no key), live total beacon-chain effective balance. APR = 64 × epochs_per_year / sqrt(total_gwei), the consensus spec reward formula at 100% participation (realized ~99.5%, under 2 bps of drift). One network-average series: consensus rewards are uniform per 32 ETH increment, so the average equals the solo validator nominal APR. Execution tips and MEV excluded. Price: CoinGecko (ETH/USD).","Jailed / inactive handling. Hyperliquid: `jailed=1` validators (currently 4) land in the dataset with `predictedApr=0`, so `net_yield_bps=0`. Solana: ~42 validators report `total_apy=0`. Live data shows two causes: commission 100% (operator routes everything to themselves, delegators get 0) or zero leader slots this epoch (no block-production rewards). Both legitimate transient states, both count toward total + median.","Excluded by design. Per-validator Ethereum gauges (~1M indices; beacon-node ingestion, v2). Ethereum execution tips + MEV (per-relay MEV-Boost scraping needed; published figure is consensus only). Lido/RocketPool/Coinbase are products with fees, not validator yields (separate bench). Polkadot v2. Cosmos Hub, Avalanche, Cardano, Sui now tracked."],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}